In 2017, Spanish news outlet ElPais.com posted a piece called "La jugada mágica de Bogolyúbov" or "The magical play of Bogoljubov." The article recalled a chess match between grandmasters Ludwig Rellstab and Efim Bogoljubov in 1940. In the video attached to the article, Leontxo García, the host of a video series on chess for El Pais, used a chessboard diagram to re-enact the match. At one point in the video, García described a particular move by Bogoljubov as "maravillosa" or "outstanding". Pretty soon, people started using the screenshot of that particular moment as a meme.
The reaction image is often posted to express a genuine or, in some cases, sarcastic response to a well-executed (or poorly executed) plan. The phrase is usually quoted as a caption in an image featuring a man gesturing towards a chessboard diagram. And some of them are as outstanding as Bogoljubov's move!
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As for the perpetrators who inspired the original video in the first place, Bogoljubov and Rellstab faced off 14 times playing classical chess, and Bogoljubov won 7 to 1, with 6 draws.
Sam Copeland, National Master and Director of Content for Chess.com, told Bored Panda that he really enjoyed not only the 'outstanding move', but the entire game García had analyzed."[It's] a gorgeous 'miniature' (a game of fewer than 25 moves, rare among masters) which shows some very attractive ideas from White to force the early victory."
Copeland also provided us with very interesting details surrounding the game. "Interestingly, it was organized by the Nazis in occupied Poland. The white player, Efim Bogoljubov, a two-time world championship challenger, was actually born in Kiev but lived in Germany after he was interred there during WWI. This happened because he was playing the Mannheim 1914 tournament when war was declared between Germany and Russia, and he was not allowed to leave Germany thereafter," he explained.
"The star move is 16.Bg6!!", he said, highlighting that chess players add two exclamation marks to indicate a brilliant move. "It is striking because White offers three sacrifices: the bishop may be captured by two black pawns (either capture allows Nxd6+ as in the game) and the knight on c4 may be captured (when White has the excellent move Rxe6+!). Sacrifices in chess are always attractive, but sacrifices on an 'empty square' such as g6 are considered particularly striking because you are offering up your pieces without immediately gaining anything in return."
Candidate Master (CM) James Coleman from England also agreed to take a look at it, saying that his impression is "Black played a risky opening that didn't pay off and never fully equalized the game. Black probably should have tried 10...d6 to stop White from playing e4-e5, although White would have retained the advantage in any case. This was definitely one key moment."
As for 16.Bg6, the 'outstanding move', Coleman described it as "beautifully aesthetic".
"[White put the piece] on a square where it could've been captured two different ways, but neither capture solved Black's problems. It's the sort of move that can be quite hard to see as the brain often filters such moves out as they are counter-intuitive in appearance."
"Realistically though, the game was just a typical example of a top player dismantling his weaker opponent and the game seems unremarkable with the exception of the Bg6! Bolt from the blue." Coleman said.
It's not dangerous to flat earthers because there is a wall of ice around the earth.
That is just heartbreaking how bad that little creature wants to escape from there :(
Not naive - just outsmarted by Russian scientists. The listening device was completely passive, with no power supply or active electronics. So when they inspected it, they didn't detect any signals from it. It was powered/activated by radio waves aimed at it from the outside. It was invented by Leon Theremin who also invented the musical instrument named after him.
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Famously the device was created by Leon Theremin (creator also of the Theremin musical instrument). It went undetected because it only came on when radio waves were present - it is often hailed as the first ever RFID device.
Reminds me of the scene from the office where Dwight gifts Jim a wooden mallard
Dude, whenever a supposed enemy gives you a gift, check for bombs or other tricks. Seriously, girls learn this in THIRD grade!
It was powered by radio waves from the outside. It's considered the earliest RFID device.
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Putin has no need for this, he has friends in some certain high places. Besides, satellites can now follow our every move. 'The Great Seal Bug': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo4PnkXT2jE
Imagine what could happen w/ a president that naive.Thank god we have Trump to protect us from those sneaky Russkies!
Ideal way to develop distrust and tarnish one's integrity. Seven years; how was it powered? The battery would have been flat after a week.
It didn't need a battery, it was powered by external radio waves.
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Yeah, smarten up team. Of course they knew. It was a way of ensuring the Soviets heard the "right" secrets etc
trump has it right about tik Tok and china, cant trust communism...so deceitful
what are you saying? IS THIS AN INSULT TO CHINA??? I am so full of rage why did no one downvote this????
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Sounds impossible to me, because how it transmit the voice data ? There was no internet and it also need power to operate and memory to store the data.
It was powered by external radio waves... invented by Theremin. Look it up... he also invented a cool musical instrument that you play without touching it... again using radio waves.
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This is brilliant! I have a cat that likes to sit places she shouldn't be sitting and I am going to try this to get her to stop.
yess i dont get it with hieght, i mean i know its good to have some standards but men cant change their hieght, i mean the perfect man could be waiting for u and u wont date him cause he 5'7 or somethin?
McDonalds losing this trademark was a case of hypocrisy. They tried to ban the company supermac's from using their similar sounding name but couldn't prove their case and lost their entire trademark in return.
do ppls parents actually do this!!??(also that was great payback😉)
This gave me an idea for my own funeral. May I'll add knocking sounds.
I was curious and decided to google why a school would ban bags and apparently it was for health and safety reasons. The students were expected to just carry their books in their arms instead.
I'm really glad they put the meme after each joke or I would have been so confused.
You have to read it in a weird booming deep voice. Makes it just a little funnier lol
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I 100% did not. Looked closely at the first one, scrolled past every other seeing only the text.
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I'm really glad they put the meme after each joke or I would have been so confused.
You have to read it in a weird booming deep voice. Makes it just a little funnier lol
Load More Replies... I 100% did not. Looked closely at the first one, scrolled past every other seeing only the text.
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